The Board has granted secondary service connection for the veteran's coronary artery disease (CAD) as it is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The deciding factor: Recent medical opinions indicate that the veteran's CAD was either caused or aggravated by his service-connected PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- Coronary artery disease (CAD), Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 25, 2003
- Citation
- 0317573
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